Paul Sprachman (born 26 May 1947) is a professor emeritus who taught at Rutgers University in the United States.
and a set of shared assumptions about the world that we call “culture.” Suppressed Persian is an anthology of selected pieces of poetry and prose that deeply offend long-established standards of "good taste" and "morality" in Iran.
His Licensed Fool (illustrated by Ardeshir Mohassess) is about the Medieval Persian satirist Obeyd Zakani.
[3][4] Sprachman has translated a number of Persian books into English, such as Gharbzadegi (Plagued by the West), A City Under Siege: Tales of the Iran-Iraq War, One Woman's War: Da (Mother), Tehran: Revolution Street and Chess with the Doomsday Machine.
[5][6] He published Two Centuries of Silence: Abdulhossein Zarrinkoub and the Formation of Iranian National Identity in 2018.